Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: All right, Rory, we are back for another fun episode
Speaker 2: of Don't Know Ball because we absolutely do not know
Speaker 2: ball now whatsoever. And today we are joined by a
Speaker 2: friend of the show, w NBA World Champion and somebody
Speaker 2: who I think is going to have a great career
Speaker 2: in podcasting when she decides to hang the shoes up
Speaker 2: for good.
Speaker 3: Lexi Browny welcome, Thank you. Well, I have to ask
Speaker 3: you a question. So, but how does this start with asking?
Speaker 2: Is here? No, I see you everybody.
Speaker 3: What I'm about to ask you has to do with Lexi. Okay,
Speaker 3: So I want to say maybe two years ago I
Speaker 3: went to one of Lexi's games. Yep, I brought Reason
Speaker 3: as my plus one.
Speaker 2: Reese, Okay, shout out for Reason.
Speaker 3: We sat courts out of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got to come on.
Speaker 3: After the game, I went with Lexi to highlight room
Speaker 3: with her teammates. They had a section shut down the
Speaker 3: whole club. Am I a basketball groupie? If I drank
Speaker 3: out of their bottles?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, in a nasty I was with the squad
Speaker 2: drinking off the bottles in the corner.
Speaker 3: They had highlight rooms shut down. I was like, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's it's.
Speaker 1: Free groopy, my first groupie.
Speaker 3: I stayed after the game.
Speaker 2: Oh you are nasty. He was in the family room
Speaker 2: like you want to go eat?
Speaker 3: No, No, LEXI put me in the side check session,
Speaker 3: treated like a groupie.
Speaker 1: I brought, made fun of him for coming to the game.
Speaker 1: I remember that episode.
Speaker 2: I kidding me, you have to No. No, I had
Speaker 2: two tickets, but it was more so because one he
Speaker 2: didn't take me and you didn't invite me. I had
Speaker 2: that on the whole situation. I was and I've never been.
Speaker 2: Actually i've been to I've been to two w NBA games.
Speaker 2: I've been the two games, but I've never been to
Speaker 2: a Sparks game.
Speaker 1: So I was kind of, don't go, don't start now.
Speaker 2: Well, no, you're not there, no more so we're not
Speaker 2: You're not You're not allowed Seattle or nothing.
Speaker 3: The Sparks. We don't even have a lighter in here.
Speaker 3: You don't want to see a flame anyway.
Speaker 2: It's Seattle, Spark, Starbucks, it's you know, the fish market.
Speaker 2: That's what we already.
Speaker 3: Maclamore deserves that exactly as far as I'm concerned. Only
Speaker 3: on that Seattle show.
Speaker 2: So, Lexi, you came in early and we were talking
Speaker 2: about you know, just women hooping with guys. And you
Speaker 2: said that you recently played in the little pickup game
Speaker 2: just to kind of see where your win was at,
Speaker 2: and you decided like not even halfway through, like Okay,
Speaker 2: I can't do this because the guys were just absolutely terrible. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how often does that happen?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't play pick up with guys often anymore,
Speaker 1: unless it's like an organized run, which again I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't do those. I do a lot of like
Speaker 1: two on two, three on three, one on one in
Speaker 1: my workouts, like guys that come in and train with
Speaker 1: me and rebounding stuff just to like get game reps in.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that game my trainer, Like, I guess these
Speaker 1: random groups of older guys just come in that night
Speaker 1: time and play just for fun. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I was nervous going into my athletes's a limited season
Speaker 1: because I hadn't played a real game since June of
Speaker 1: last year. So I was like, because we tried on
Speaker 1: a half court, so I was like, let me see
Speaker 1: what my win looks like just in a full court
Speaker 1: just pushits and gigs, and it was a lot of
Speaker 1: just nonsense. So did get to the point where, like
Speaker 1: I would score a few points and then like they
Speaker 1: would stop giving me the ball, like okay, like.
Speaker 2: I'm the pro.
Speaker 1: This is about me right now, It's not about y'all.
Speaker 1: I know, I jumped into y'all's pickup game. Y'all probably
Speaker 1: who is this? And then always when I start playing,
Speaker 1: like they look at me and they're like.
Speaker 2: Oh, that has to be fun though, because the w NBA, unless,
Speaker 2: like you know, you're one of the faces of the league,
Speaker 2: You're one of the five faces of the w NBA,
Speaker 2: it has to be kind of fun walking into like
Speaker 2: an open gym LA fitness with all the guys, I
Speaker 2: don't say as a former, as a real athlete, a
Speaker 2: real basketball player, and walking into the gym and guys
Speaker 2: don't know, they just they hold this girl just trying
Speaker 2: to get a work out and kind of sweat whatever whatever,
Speaker 2: Like does she know what the travel is? Meanwhile, you're
Speaker 2: a world champion basketball player and you just go in
Speaker 2: there and just start toasting everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely like put on my extra girly behavior
Speaker 1: when I go. If I do happen like this.
Speaker 3: One thing, what you're doing, it's a whole TikTok series.
Speaker 3: We need to start hustling.
Speaker 1: I know though I've thought about it, thought about it,
Speaker 1: especially in a shooting contest like maybe pick up one
Speaker 1: on one. Guys probably could beat me because just physicality.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to argue that I would still have
Speaker 1: to be a guy that can really play it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like shooting, no chance, never happening. You're no, not
Speaker 1: many people are going to out shoot me over.
Speaker 2: That's all your challenge? Are you staring at me while
Speaker 2: you're saying.
Speaker 4: That it's not a challenge?
Speaker 3: Who challenging? She's not going to be challenging.
Speaker 1: I'm the best shooter. I don't know shoot me. And
Speaker 1: I was like you talking to me, no, no, because
Speaker 1: you was.
Speaker 2: Absolute too. But she was like Lexie was stayed at
Speaker 2: me like not happening, And I'm like, I didn't say anything,
Speaker 2: number one, but if you called me out, let's go
Speaker 2: out there and do make some happen.
Speaker 1: Go find a hoop?
Speaker 2: You loving food now, I don't want I don't want
Speaker 2: no problems with X. I don't want no problems. So
Speaker 2: lex in the w NBA, in the locker room, I'm
Speaker 2: sure as far as pre game, you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: kind of similar to some of the guys as far
Speaker 2: as like, you know, the routine getting ready mentally preparing
Speaker 2: for a game. Because sports are sports, what is the
Speaker 2: mood like in the locker room with women? Like what
Speaker 2: are y'all listening to? Like what is the vibe in
Speaker 2: the women's locker room?
Speaker 1: It really depends on the people on the team. So,
Speaker 1: like my first season with the Sparks, so then I'll
Speaker 1: just say, like my most recent experiences, we had like
Speaker 1: a few more older players, so we like having like
Speaker 1: R and B Nekaumakay She's Nigerian, so it was like
Speaker 1: a lot of afrobeats like that, so like it was
Speaker 1: good vibes. And then this past year we had a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of little babies, so we were listening to
Speaker 1: Sexy Red and Gunna, which I love them, but like
Speaker 1: for me, I am like very R and B chill
Speaker 1: vibes for a pre game, So I would just put
Speaker 1: my headphones on. But you got to get to the
Speaker 1: arena like three hours early, so like everybody has like
Speaker 1: their time slots to do their things, so everybody kind
Speaker 1: of is like doing their own thing. I personally hate
Speaker 1: that I don't need three hours to get ready for
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 2: And no matter who you playing.
Speaker 1: No, like even in athletes unlimited, Like I was getting
Speaker 1: to the gym maybe hour hour fifteen before the game,
Speaker 1: like getting getting my mind right, get some shots up,
Speaker 1: and I'm ready to go. For me, the less I think,
Speaker 1: the better I play. I'm gonna go over the scout
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna know the scouting report. I know all
Speaker 1: these players like the back of my hand because I'm
Speaker 1: like truly a student. But like getting to the arena
Speaker 1: at like four point thirty, I hate it. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: on the court for like two hours before the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like and then you're like in a full sweat, whole
Speaker 1: work out before the game, which is amazing, especially for
Speaker 1: me earlier in my crew when I was not playing. Okay,
Speaker 1: when you start playing though those two hour warm ups.
Speaker 2: You're like it kind of like takes the moment like
Speaker 2: we just play already, Yeah, I feel you.
Speaker 3: Okay, When when does it get the fit off photo happen?
Speaker 3: Is that before?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Hours always laugh at all athletes that do that. You
Speaker 3: know that they're wearing a fit to go change immediately.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny going through a tunnel with your
Speaker 3: fit park.
Speaker 1: You're going through a parking garage the loading dock with
Speaker 1: your best clothes on, and you're going home after the game. Usually,
Speaker 1: like for me, especially in LA, like if I have
Speaker 1: a really cute outfit on, I'm probably going to go
Speaker 1: do something get But like this season, I don't know,
Speaker 1: because my new teammates in Seattle, they be like putting
Speaker 1: on like really nice outfits for games. I'm trying to decide,
Speaker 1: like what my energy is going to be this season,
Speaker 1: Like I kind of feel like I want to just
Speaker 1: show up, like I'm about to go play basketball, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna be in this tunnel
Speaker 1: fit conversation anyway. Yeah, and they'd be like Skyler Necka Gabby,
Speaker 1: like they have some really nice outfits. I remember seeing
Speaker 1: them last season. I don't know, this might be my vibes.
Speaker 2: I want to say, like I think that's kind of
Speaker 2: dope though, to do like just the sweats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, I don't really have.
Speaker 2: I think Asia had did that a few times.
Speaker 1: She looked started dropping like forty on people.
Speaker 2: I like that because I'm the best player in the league.
Speaker 2: I don't care like I'm coming in here with flip flops.
Speaker 2: T shirt and some shorts and I'm getting right to
Speaker 2: the business. I like that type.
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe certain games, like if we have
Speaker 1: like a tea nationally televised game, maybe I'll put a
Speaker 1: cute outfit on. But I really don't think I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to Seattle and be like super focused on
Speaker 1: total fits.
Speaker 2: I really want to know what might be fire. Seattle
Speaker 2: a lot of rain. You can get a lot of
Speaker 2: raincoats off.
Speaker 1: Rain coats in the summer.
Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, I'm sure it rings.
Speaker 1: And it's not. Have you guys been to Seattle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Seattle.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite places.
Speaker 2: I've heard so much. Like we went a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago to Seattle. And it's funny when we go
Speaker 2: to different cities, like we sometimes hang out, but then
Speaker 2: most of the days that if we're there on the ground,
Speaker 2: like maybe two days, we do like a lot of
Speaker 2: different things. And then like when we finally meet before
Speaker 2: the show, me and Rory, we start talking about like
Speaker 2: what we did. And in Seattle, we were sitting in
Speaker 2: the group chat like yo, I love this city, Like
Speaker 2: this is a dope city, like we've heard like, oh
Speaker 2: it's depressing, the weather, it's gloomy old year. I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't care. This is my vibet. Like I literally
Speaker 2: walked around Seattle like a true tourist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's going to be fun too because we're
Speaker 1: the only basketball professional basketball team there and then they
Speaker 1: have the Seahawks obviously, but they're not in season. But
Speaker 1: like when we're playing, like we have the Rams, the Chargers,
Speaker 1: the Clippers, the Lakers. Now UCLA and USC girls are
Speaker 1: really good, so like we're kind of like we've been
Speaker 1: like the bottom of the totem pole for years, so
Speaker 1: I was excited to like kind of get the sparks
Speaker 1: back like the top of that totem pole. But now
Speaker 1: I'm in Seattle and.
Speaker 2: Seattle, have you had a chance to connect with superb.
Speaker 1: Actually is the person that got me my podcast? Really
Speaker 1: he reached out to me. Yeah. So deep Blue is her?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so she has her podcast with her wife, yep,
Speaker 1: and they do it under the Deep Blue umbrella, which
Speaker 1: is with iHeart. So my teammate Jordan Canada, old teammate
Speaker 1: played in Seattle with Sue. So one day she texted
Speaker 1: me and was like, super Bird asked for your number.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, and I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: thought it was about some basketball. Thanks me. Would you
Speaker 1: be interested in doing a women's basketball podcast? I think
Speaker 1: you would be perfect for it, And like that's how
Speaker 1: that started. That was a year ago, a little bit
Speaker 1: over a year ago. So yeah, she's been awesome. And
Speaker 1: you know the fact that someone like Sue Bird recognized
Speaker 1: my voice and presence in the league despite the ups
Speaker 1: and downs of it, like they like meant the world
Speaker 1: to me, Like it was amazing. I'm like, I got
Speaker 1: super Bird's the number my phone now.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that's sup Bird. When you talk about
Speaker 2: just basketball, she's basketball royalty, Like every level she dominated, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the game. So that's kind of dope to connect with that,
Speaker 2: especially being in Seattle. Seattle legend she is. So you
Speaker 2: went to high school in Atlanta. Yeah, what was your
Speaker 2: musical influence, Like, what were some of your earliest memories
Speaker 2: of like your favorite artists in Atlanta?
Speaker 1: In Atlanta, I mean Future Obviously the high school I
Speaker 1: went to was predominantly Caucasian, so I was around a
Speaker 1: lot of white people.
Speaker 3: We love Future, right, Roy.
Speaker 1: I feel like you don't count though, with these white
Speaker 1: people that I was living in Atlanta, Like it was
Speaker 1: like it was like country suburban, wealthy white people like
Speaker 1: they were awesome.
Speaker 3: They were I'm glad you don't think of me as
Speaker 3: a wealthy white man. I really appreciate that. The worst
Speaker 3: backhanded You're not like one of the elites.
Speaker 1: The country suburban? Are you a country or suburban? I'm
Speaker 1: not okay then, but my wealthy Oh my gosh, it
Speaker 1: was a question my music, yeah, future, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know Drake's not from Atlanta, but artist that was like
Speaker 1: the first you need to check tenth grade. I remember
Speaker 1: listening to Find Your Love? Is that the song? It
Speaker 1: was on the radio like all It's time, and I
Speaker 1: remember that was the first song with Drake I ever heard.
Speaker 2: God Damn making Me feel old and I Love Your
Speaker 2: Love by Drake was the first Drake song you heard.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I've been a super fan ever since. You know,
Speaker 1: crazy I was fifteen.
Speaker 3: I get it with age difference, Yeah, I can see
Speaker 3: that being the first one. Man I'm old, No best
Speaker 3: I ever had or anything that was Damn. Find Your
Speaker 3: Love was the first album.
Speaker 1: Right, that was Yeah, that was like his first like
Speaker 1: mainstream song, I want to say, And then I went
Speaker 1: on my little Drake deep Dive and I've been like
Speaker 1: a super fan ever since.
Speaker 3: What were your parents listening to at that time?
Speaker 1: A lot of Christian music. My mom, it's funny, she
Speaker 1: likes like the the white people Christian music. She doesn't
Speaker 1: really like gossipgh school. Yeah, so my mom is mixed,
Speaker 1: so she's half white. My twenty five percent comes out
Speaker 1: from time to time. I listened to a lot of
Speaker 1: Backstreet Boys and Sync. My dad likes, you know, older
Speaker 1: R and B music. My mom loves Luther Van Draws.
Speaker 1: So we have like a very different type of like.
Speaker 2: The word I founded music in the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: Who are some of your teammates that you absolutely love
Speaker 2: their musical taste? Like you would absolutely let them control
Speaker 2: the music.
Speaker 1: And the lot for me personally, because my taste of
Speaker 1: music is so all over the place. Nobody like you
Speaker 1: don't want none of your Like like I said, I
Speaker 1: like I have a Drake song, then Future will come on,
Speaker 1: then Justin Zerlate will come on, and like Britney Speers
Speaker 1: will come on. Okay, so it's like all over the place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I've kind of like stopped listening to a lot
Speaker 1: of rap music lately because it doesn't like make me happy,
Speaker 1: like the energy of rap music for me, just in
Speaker 1: the time of my life that I'm in right now,
Speaker 1: it doesn't align.
Speaker 2: Is you more R and B right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And pop?
Speaker 2: That's funny because I was watching I was watching the
Speaker 2: Jordan documentary Last Dance. I watched that probably like every
Speaker 2: other month just to just to watch it. That was
Speaker 2: so much fun incredible documentary. And it's always funny to
Speaker 2: me when I think they were in Utah up in
Speaker 2: the finals and Jordan is getting on the bus and
Speaker 2: he's walking through the tunnel and he had his headphones
Speaker 2: on it. He's like jamming right, So I'm laughing because
Speaker 2: we already know what he's listening to. But the first
Speaker 2: time watching it, I remember when somebody asked him, like, yo, Mike,
Speaker 2: what you're listening to? He's like Kenny Lattimore, Mike, Ain't
Speaker 2: nobody ever bought their head that hard to Kenny Lattimer.
Speaker 2: But this is straight R and B music.
Speaker 3: I don't know what song from Kenny makes you.
Speaker 2: He was doing this and like playing the air drums,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, Kenny Latimore doesn't have any music like that.
Speaker 2: But it's just funny that the most dominant player in
Speaker 2: the world is listening to like smooth R and B
Speaker 2: on his way to like the finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need to chill out, you need to calm down,
Speaker 1: like getting too high. I'm just not a super hyphe
Speaker 1: person anyway, So that music like it's funnel listen to
Speaker 1: it's fun of like Gus locker room before the game
Speaker 1: is you do need to get like a little bit
Speaker 1: of energy. But as far as like locking in and
Speaker 1: getting my mind right for a game, I need R
Speaker 1: and B or have something happy, like I don't need
Speaker 1: all that cussing.
Speaker 3: And not try to.
Speaker 4: Drill on the courtland Nah sexy drill, cool sexy drill,
Speaker 4: cashco band.
Speaker 1: M hmm, okay, love me some cash bang. But even
Speaker 1: his lyrics are a little like okay, it's a little
Speaker 1: it gets a little aggressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like the music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can tune out the lyrics.
Speaker 2: Just listen to the music. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. When your dad was in the league, did you
Speaker 3: like hang in the locker room at all? Or it
Speaker 3: was family completely?
Speaker 1: I mean I was so little. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: I didn't spend much time with him, like in the
Speaker 1: locker room and behind like we had the family room.
Speaker 1: But I was with my mom and my siblings.
Speaker 2: I'm so fucking old though. I had a post of
Speaker 2: your dad on my wall. Love that. Like I think
Speaker 2: I got the poster basketball rupe too.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but you and I for the Browns.
Speaker 2: But I think that I think the poster was the
Speaker 2: you know, the dunk contest when he won.
Speaker 3: The reblock pump moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it didn't the post didn't come come with rebox.
Speaker 2: I think I got that poster with like some Jordan.
Speaker 2: They gave me that postage.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: It didn't make sense, but I was happy to have it.
Speaker 2: But just you saying that I'm like shit, like I'm old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I was like a baby when he was
Speaker 1: in Boston, so I don't even remember him playing in Boston.
Speaker 1: The only time I remember him playing was in Orlando
Speaker 1: at the very end of his career. I was a
Speaker 1: little bit older. So yeah, I got to like go
Speaker 1: to their practices. They had like little dance camps with
Speaker 1: the magic. I wanted to be a magic I saw
Speaker 1: I was gonna be a magic dancer. Really, I still
Speaker 1: want to be a dance like deep down, Like I
Speaker 1: took a dance class when I was in Nashville hip
Speaker 1: hop class and it was so.
Speaker 2: Much fun hop dance class in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like with my white friend named Joy. Yes,
Speaker 1: we went to hip hop class together and it was to.
Speaker 3: These terms like urban during it.
Speaker 1: No, the strugler was black, so it was a black
Speaker 1: guy and he was like he was really cool. But
Speaker 1: the way it was so funny being in the dance
Speaker 1: class because the way he was like talking to everybody
Speaker 1: was like a coach. He was like locking, like don't
Speaker 1: do this. He was like yelling at us.
Speaker 2: I was on this two step okay.
Speaker 1: Like he was like barking at us. And then he
Speaker 1: was like just field of music, don't dance and then
Speaker 1: people were moving. He's like what I say? I said
Speaker 1: don't dance, And I was like, okay, this is the
Speaker 1: beginner class.
Speaker 2: This is the beginning.
Speaker 1: It was in the beginner class. I'm a video of
Speaker 1: it on TikTok if anybody wants to go look at it.
Speaker 2: Videos of you dancing and class. Oh my god, I
Speaker 2: have to get it.
Speaker 1: It was to Travis Porterner, so natural bring it back.
Speaker 1: Bringing it back naturally would.
Speaker 3: Be Travis, Yeah, have you a dance podcasting? Or is
Speaker 3: it going to be dancing. I don't know the retirement plan.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm like podcast side quest queen right now.
Speaker 2: Actually you might be maybe teach a dance class.
Speaker 1: I know I can't do that. I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I can dance, okay, I can't.
Speaker 2: You at the club with them, like were they you
Speaker 2: vib with the w n B A players day.
Speaker 3: They were standing on the chairs, man going on. But
Speaker 3: it was like inappropriate work, like like a friendly fun twerk.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like that in l A. They don't get
Speaker 1: rowdy like that in l A. Not a highlight room.
Speaker 2: Well, no girls in the highlight room. I've seen some
Speaker 2: girls dance in highlight room because christ.
Speaker 1: R and B Wednesdays. I know it wasn't then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was. Yeah, that's the only time
Speaker 2: I've ever been to highlight I love.
Speaker 1: I'm going to miss that in the summer.
Speaker 2: They're moving it though, they're moving it to I think
Speaker 2: Shawnson didn't moving it to Zuke. It's another club opening up. Really,
Speaker 2: they're moving it. The last the last highlight room party
Speaker 2: was I think last week, and then they'll be doing
Speaker 2: a highlight room in Zuke.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: So it's still the party is still going to be around.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine. I'm not gonna feel as bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, an Era, I left out a part of
Speaker 3: that story. After the game, I took her to some
Speaker 3: ratchet hookahs.
Speaker 1: But you sure did that?
Speaker 3: No, No, that that would have been like compared to
Speaker 3: what the we went reason like my people, my people
Speaker 3: throwing a little something that is who spot and he
Speaker 3: was talking about his people from Carson like it was
Speaker 3: a hole in the wall, like it was the hood
Speaker 3: in there, and here I am with two women, like
Speaker 3: you know, we could leave, don't worry.
Speaker 1: I was like, can we go to highlight room please?
Speaker 1: I didn't even want to go, like.
Speaker 3: Rory has been a highlight ro one one thousands, and it
Speaker 3: wasn't because it wasn't Wednesday, right, I don't remember. I
Speaker 3: think it was like regular night.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I lasted maybe thirty minutes. Yeah, Ory was out
Speaker 3: of there and she stayed. You stayed till like four am.
Speaker 1: I stayed.
Speaker 3: You was in the mix.
Speaker 1: I tell you when we because it was so funny.
Speaker 1: My teammate or not my teammate, my friend came out
Speaker 1: with us on Sunday. It was like our wrap party
Speaker 1: for Athletes Unlimited. So like the season's over, right, everyone's
Speaker 1: been like playing for five straight weeks, stressed out, everyone's tired,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. So this was like kind of
Speaker 1: everyone's like let loose moment. So like we was going
Speaker 1: crazy and she's like, it's literally Sunday. Are you guys insane?
Speaker 1: I'm like, we don't pay attention to the days of
Speaker 1: the week. Do we have an off day the next day? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going out or we're doing something, Like we don't
Speaker 1: care what day of the week it is. We got
Speaker 1: to figure it out.
Speaker 3: Is it less strict in the league than it probably
Speaker 3: was at Duke? Oh for sure, I feel like more
Speaker 3: strict than we had a time.
Speaker 1: I had a great time at Duke and Durham, Like
Speaker 1: we had so much fun. My teammates and I. We
Speaker 1: were always out doing something. They weren't super strict at Duke,
Speaker 1: but like obviously like everyone is watching. But Duke is
Speaker 1: such a small school, so there was only one bar
Speaker 1: that everybody went to. It was eating and up. It's
Speaker 1: called Shooters naturally, it's like in this big bar, so
Speaker 1: like that's where everybody was at Wednesdays and Saturdays, and
Speaker 1: if you weren't at shooters, you were at home.
Speaker 2: Coach Coach K lives on. I heard he lives on
Speaker 2: like in like the woods near campus. Like he has
Speaker 2: this crazy house in the woods.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Coach K's house, but I could
Speaker 1: believe that there's some mansion in the durham Ford.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like he has like a it's like in the forest,
Speaker 2: has this crazy I think Dante Jones was telling me
Speaker 2: that a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Like I believe that.
Speaker 2: I believe razy house in the forest, like I believe
Speaker 2: it in trees. And then you just see Coach K's house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like this big trail like in the back
Speaker 1: of Duke. The boys team used to have to like
Speaker 1: run some of their conditioning tests back there. They're like
Speaker 1: this big mile, Like.
Speaker 3: Zion needs to go back.
Speaker 4: I don't believe he's he's he looks he looks a
Speaker 4: lot healthier. He does look he looks better now, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he does.
Speaker 1: Were you weird?
Speaker 3: Were you there at the same time as I left?
Speaker 1: When they got there they got got there.
Speaker 3: Did you have much interaction with Coach K at all?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, he was always in the weight room so
Speaker 1: I always used to see him around the gym, very nice.
Speaker 1: He was really cool. We shared it. He scared me
Speaker 1: at first, but like, so we have the big facility,
Speaker 1: the practice facility, so we shared the weight room with
Speaker 1: the men's team. We shared the courts, and then we
Speaker 1: shared the training room. But like obviously we had different
Speaker 1: practice times, but we would like our locker rooms were
Speaker 1: like right next to each other, so like we would
Speaker 1: see them and all the coaches, like all the time.
Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about uh any doing anything music
Speaker 2: related after you're done playing sports.
Speaker 1: I want to learn how to DJ. Really, yes, I
Speaker 1: just love music. I love the process of making a song.
Speaker 1: It's been so interesting to me. I watched those videos
Speaker 1: on YouTube with the producers when they break down how
Speaker 1: they created a beat. I love those videos, but I
Speaker 1: have no idea what any I don't know what any
Speaker 1: of them are talking about.
Speaker 3: I mean with AI now, you can just tell it
Speaker 3: what you want.
Speaker 1: I would love to learn how to be a producer,
Speaker 1: and I want to rap on a song, but someone
Speaker 1: would have to write a rap for me.
Speaker 2: Chat GVT. Yeah, Eli Jello just did it, like you
Speaker 2: couldn't do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Were you a fan? Of that song.
Speaker 2: I hate that. I just wanted to do Were you
Speaker 2: a fan of the song? Yes?
Speaker 1: I loved it?
Speaker 2: No you did, Lex, Don't.
Speaker 3: You need to accept that we like that.
Speaker 1: I root everything Ball family.
Speaker 2: Okay, now that's that's totally different, because I do too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I support you, clearly do not.
Speaker 2: We got to.
Speaker 3: Direct email from the Ball family that it's not coming on.
Speaker 2: When it comes to I just feel like it's certain things.
Speaker 2: I just feel like it's certain things we just should
Speaker 2: stay out of. Just stay out of it. I support
Speaker 2: I think LaVar ball Is. He should have a statue
Speaker 2: in California. I think the Ball family. I think that
Speaker 2: what they represent hard work and all of that getting
Speaker 2: their family to a certain level. Yeah, I think that's great.
Speaker 2: I salute that when they were doing the sneakers, I
Speaker 2: thought that was a bold move. I respected the move.
Speaker 2: I think they just weren't ready for that, you know,
Speaker 2: that monster of the sneaker industry. But that's okay. I
Speaker 2: love the fact that they tried it. But now when
Speaker 2: you start talking about rapping and making music, why they
Speaker 2: just used.
Speaker 1: A little bit of song, went crazy like that, Like
Speaker 1: what because anything in the music than I am for
Speaker 1: me like when things go viral, I try to like
Speaker 1: deep deep dive into like what's going on. Like that's
Speaker 1: a sociologist in me. That's what went to school for
Speaker 1: what is going on in the world that makes this
Speaker 1: particular moment like go crazy.
Speaker 2: See, I think people what's going on. I think people
Speaker 2: don't understand of just having a like a viral moment.
Speaker 2: If we understood exactly how many people just are not
Speaker 2: engaged in our world and our algorithm on social media,
Speaker 2: like you would realize that in the grand scheme of
Speaker 2: the world, that record is not what you think it
Speaker 2: is just because of what you follow on your social media.
Speaker 2: It's not that. So I'm just listening to it, like
Speaker 2: just the music of it, and I'm like, first of all,
Speaker 2: he's rapping like he's from the South, he's from Chino Hills, California.
Speaker 2: This sounds like early cash money, Yeah, hot boys. Like
Speaker 2: so that's why I say chat GBT because to me,
Speaker 2: it feels like somebody just went to the studio and said,
Speaker 2: let's try to get as close to hot Boys cash
Speaker 2: Money era as we possibly can. And I heard it
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, it just doesn't feel it doesn't
Speaker 2: feel like an authentic, real song to me at all.
Speaker 1: No, it definitely felt like a viral moment type situation.
Speaker 1: It worked, but he performed it right.
Speaker 2: Terrible.
Speaker 1: Is it he going to like Coachell or something now
Speaker 1: too or something festival?
Speaker 3: Let me, but he'll fitting it Rolling Loud for sure
Speaker 3: with shitty performers.
Speaker 1: I've never been to a Rolling Loud.
Speaker 3: I respect what Rolling Loud has John and like, I
Speaker 3: would go if we were interviewing people, but it's just
Speaker 3: too overwhelming of young people on drugs many and I
Speaker 3: would my social anxiety. I would have a panic attack.
Speaker 2: There's too much.
Speaker 1: At some point I would just be mad all the time.
Speaker 1: I can't believe people stand that close to other people
Speaker 1: in the heat outdoors.
Speaker 2: Everybody's on drug the bathroom, yourself, you just let let
Speaker 2: it happen.
Speaker 1: Disgust nothing, There's nothing about a music festival that is appealing.
Speaker 2: It's it's probably one of the most overrated experiences ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I've heard.
Speaker 3: I mean, some festivals aren't, but that one in particular,
Speaker 3: I think it's just too overwhelmed. It's I think it's
Speaker 3: the only excuse that like sixteen year old white kids
Speaker 3: can take Molly without their parents knowing and use the
Speaker 3: N word all in one event. Yeah, a couple of
Speaker 3: everything that they've wanted to do. They can stream with
Speaker 3: impunity in a long hair and no.
Speaker 1: One will say that seems insane but tweaker.
Speaker 3: This was as of an hour ago. The Billboard has
Speaker 3: made over six hunder grand and just streaming. It's only
Speaker 3: been a few weeks. He's gonna recoup that deal.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, and that's what out the performances.
Speaker 1: So now you are you're Jello. What direction are you
Speaker 1: now going with your music? Are you leaning into this
Speaker 1: or you're like gonna chiy and make like normal music.
Speaker 3: I think that's normal music.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, is he gonna try and embody
Speaker 1: this of course early two thousands era, Like he's just
Speaker 1: gonna he's just gonna lean into that, Yeah, baggy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gotta lean in right, So you just gotta.
Speaker 2: Malibles Most Wanted. Yeah, it feels like.
Speaker 3: He red had like some parts.
Speaker 1: To sneak and watch that movie.
Speaker 2: My mama, let me watch Most Wanted. Why you couldn't
Speaker 2: watch that?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things I could have watched growing up.
Speaker 1: You act like it was a Casino or something I
Speaker 1: could have watched that I couldn't watch. None of the
Speaker 1: shows on MTV like Next Room, Raiders.
Speaker 2: That classic show, class Classics.
Speaker 1: Just I just snuck and watched all the shows on MTV.
Speaker 3: And so you were in a really strict household.
Speaker 1: It was like, yes, it was pretty Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: pretty strict. But it was like I never like needed anything,
Speaker 1: and then everything that I got like had like an
Speaker 1: achievement attached to it, So like, oh, you want to
Speaker 1: go hang out with your friends, you have to have
Speaker 1: these grades. Oh you want a car, you need to
Speaker 1: do this. So like I was to get in my car.
Speaker 1: I got my first car my sophomore year of college.
Speaker 1: But the only way I got the car was if
Speaker 1: I finished my senior year was straight a's and I
Speaker 1: committed to a top twenty five program I respected.
Speaker 3: I got that great and I mean it clearly worked
Speaker 3: at w NBA.
Speaker 2: So yeah, your strategy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So like they programmed my mind like just my
Speaker 1: life is just like a never ending checklists and if
Speaker 1: I do something, then I'm gonna go reward myself.
Speaker 2: So now as an adult, do you like.
Speaker 1: That's what I did this morning? So I finished the
Speaker 1: athletes Unlimited. I finished top ten and I went and
Speaker 1: bout a Van Cleef necklace for myself.
Speaker 3: This morning, like this is why I made her pay
Speaker 3: for the bottle.
Speaker 1: Like that, I like that you got a little tree.
Speaker 3: It's Do you feel like you were pressured into basketball
Speaker 3: or no?
Speaker 1: Honestly, my dad did not. He was not very impressed
Speaker 1: by me when I was a kid. He was like,
Speaker 1: you sure you want.
Speaker 2: To That was more are you sure you are terrible?
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, Dad, I want to just hang
Speaker 1: out with you and be in the gym with you.
Speaker 1: And then I got a little older and the work
Speaker 1: ethic was there and the athleticism wasn't quite there yet.
Speaker 1: So that's why he created me to be a really
Speaker 1: good shooter, because he was like, if you grow a
Speaker 1: little bit, if you don't grow, if you get faster,
Speaker 1: you don't get faster, you're gonna be able to shoot
Speaker 1: or you're gonna be fine. Then I ended up leaning
Speaker 1: out a little bit. I got taller, I have long arms,
Speaker 1: and the work ethic was already there. So once I
Speaker 1: got eighth ninth grade, we were like, okay, like this
Speaker 1: is something I want to do. He coached in the
Speaker 1: WNBA for a few years, and then that's the first
Speaker 1: time I was up close and personal with the w
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, no, I want to this
Speaker 1: is what I want to do, Like, this is my
Speaker 1: dream to be a WNBA player.
Speaker 3: Who's your favorite player growing up?
Speaker 1: So he coached the Orlando Miracle, which no longer exists.
Speaker 1: They had a point guard. Her name was Shannon Johnson,
Speaker 1: but her nickname was pee Wee, and she was my
Speaker 1: favorite player growing up. And then Christy Tolliver was my
Speaker 1: next favorite player. She went to Maryland. She's the reason
Speaker 1: why I went to Maryland. We were teammates for a
Speaker 1: year in LA, which was ridiculous, and I was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like the name of my podcast, but yeah, I know
Speaker 1: a lot of shooters, a lot of point guards are
Speaker 1: people that I enjoy watching and model my game after.
Speaker 2: Are you a better shooter than your dad?
Speaker 1: Now, yes, I am.
Speaker 2: You said that with Coyle like you didn't even think
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: I told you there's not very many people.
Speaker 2: I just said with Your dad is a pro Bowl
Speaker 2: player too, so it's kind of like, you know, it's like,
Speaker 2: all right, he got a bad hit, now he got
Speaker 2: a yeah, because he's a little, you catch him on
Speaker 2: the tail, and.
Speaker 3: I exactly when was the first time you beat him
Speaker 3: in one on one?
Speaker 1: Never?
Speaker 2: Yeah, see to that.
Speaker 1: We played one on one once when I was a
Speaker 1: little younger and I could have beat him and I
Speaker 1: missed my layup and I freaked out because I was
Speaker 1: a kid like and then he went and scoring and
Speaker 1: we never played again after that.
Speaker 2: Did he have a dunk on you?
Speaker 1: Probably, but probably like fun not like tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Like I do that to tomorrow now with my with
Speaker 3: my nerve food, you have to she can stand.
Speaker 2: Bill's character.
Speaker 1: To stand so you can dunk on them. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's sarious.
Speaker 2: So you had your career high against Phoenix a few
Speaker 2: years ago. What were you listening to before that game?
Speaker 1: What was I listening to? You know what's crazy? That
Speaker 1: was right when I was really sick, So I don't
Speaker 1: know if I was even listening to him. I was
Speaker 1: like struggling to be prepared for that game, like physically,
Speaker 1: so the fact that I had the game that I
Speaker 1: had that at that time, the way I was feeling
Speaker 1: was insane. So I don't even think I was listening
Speaker 1: to music. I think I was just trying to like
Speaker 1: get through really get through the day.
Speaker 3: So the flu game aka hungover now it.
Speaker 1: Was Yeah, and like probably like two weeks after that
Speaker 1: was when I was out for the season. So battling through,
Speaker 1: pushing through how to go out on a high note.
Speaker 1: At least I was like, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Let it go.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know what's going on. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm to be able to play again,
Speaker 1: so let me at least like play until I physically can't.
Speaker 1: And that's actually what happened. But in hindsight, that was
Speaker 1: not a very smart thing to do for me.
Speaker 2: Which one of your teammates can you remember? I know
Speaker 2: you said you wear your headphones a lot when you're
Speaker 2: around your teammates, But from what you can remember, who
Speaker 2: has the worst taste in music?
Speaker 1: They would probably say me, they as amazing as I love, like,
Speaker 1: as amazing as my playlist is to me. If I
Speaker 1: were to play in the locker room, they'd be like,
Speaker 1: turn this ship off.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm going to you have the worst.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say that I'm listening to Backstreet Boys
Speaker 3: over sexy read anything. So he's not even close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean sexy red definitely in sing I
Speaker 1: just went to justin Timulate concert a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Ago, so you're more of an in sync girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm also going to go watch the Backstreet
Speaker 1: Boys in Vegas in their residency. Okay, I'm in there.
Speaker 3: Something tells me your your favorite JT album is The
Speaker 3: Man in the Woods Ones?
Speaker 1: Was that his most recent one?
Speaker 3: That whatever? That whatever? The worst one was for suburban, white,
Speaker 3: wealthy people.
Speaker 1: That I was like, go back, yeah, go back to
Speaker 1: Timberland days. And that's really what he leaned in too.
Speaker 1: On his tour. I was very happy with his set
Speaker 1: list because I was a little concerned with his recent releases.
Speaker 1: I was like, what kind of music are we going
Speaker 1: to hear?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: He he was with the old reliables. He was smart.
Speaker 3: When you were in Vegas, did you ever go to
Speaker 3: any residencies?
Speaker 1: No, but I went to Ussher when he went on tour,
Speaker 1: So he came to La So I got to see.
Speaker 2: Usher incredible show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good, but it was like compared to
Speaker 1: the residency, it kind of was like here, damn, You're like,
Speaker 1: y'all want to see this here? Cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Vegas all come to you.
Speaker 1: Right, So I do wish I went to Vegas, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to that Backs Boys one and it's in
Speaker 1: the Sphere. I think I've never been in.
Speaker 3: So oh wait they have a residency.
Speaker 1: Know they just announced it.
Speaker 3: Oh they have the Backs.
Speaker 2: You always have a residency in the sphere, I think.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's sphere crazy. Yeah, they just
Speaker 1: announced it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would I gotta go.
Speaker 1: I'm in there.
Speaker 2: I would have to go see that. That just that,
Speaker 2: that's a moment, like you have to see that. Being
Speaker 2: on Gills Arena, How has it prepared you for your
Speaker 2: for function? But yeah, for podcasting, Like how is it
Speaker 2: with the guys sitting down every week?
Speaker 1: I mean the my like journey within Gils has been
Speaker 1: so funny because you know, we have the live chat,
Speaker 1: so I'm getting like active feedback on my presence in
Speaker 1: real time. So Yo looks at the chat during the show.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if people like realize that, like
Speaker 1: he's he says things on purpose because he's reading the chat.
Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, exactly, he reads the chat. Just
Speaker 1: they're all reading the chat in real time. I stopped
Speaker 1: reading the chat. I stopped reading the comments because men
Speaker 1: are mean. But when I first got on the show,
Speaker 1: they hated me, like hate him.
Speaker 3: I mean, who is this girl?
Speaker 1: She was like who is she? Like she's a player,
Speaker 1: Like we didn't know. And we had a shootout and
Speaker 1: I would beat everybody with.
Speaker 3: Gill you have to be specific.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a basketball shootout.
Speaker 2: A little bit of both, like we just did.
Speaker 1: To be clear funny as we had a basketball shootout
Speaker 1: and I beat all the guys. I made it the farthest.
Speaker 1: And then after that the chat was like, we love Lexi.
Speaker 1: She's actually good at basketball. We don't care that she's
Speaker 1: been in the w BA for six years. She beat
Speaker 1: retired NBA players at.
Speaker 3: Mid range jump shot here to defend the in cell chat,
Speaker 3: but beating Gilbert at a shootout is it? But say
Speaker 3: gil could shoot?
Speaker 1: And I'm like they had higher lowers on the game.
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all think that. Y'all really think gil is
Speaker 1: going to go ten for twenty five?
Speaker 2: Like, I mean, Gilbert Arenas is a I mean, if
Speaker 2: you my over under was low.
Speaker 1: It was so disrespectful. They were like mine was like
Speaker 1: less than fifty percent. Really, Yeah, I was like, y'all
Speaker 1: are rude. Yeah, I made it to like the almost
Speaker 1: the final round and then two of our two of
Speaker 1: other people like went for the last round. But it
Speaker 1: was fun. But yeah, I literally won the chat over
Speaker 1: in the shootings.
Speaker 2: Just just want to do They just want to see
Speaker 2: that you you know what.
Speaker 1: You like all these videos of me, all these accolades.
Speaker 1: They're like, fuck that you outshot a bunch of forty
Speaker 1: year old retired NBA guys.
Speaker 2: You're her, Yeah, you're her.
Speaker 1: You're her now we respect you. But it's been fun
Speaker 1: and being around those guys has just been amazing.
Speaker 2: Who has the worst music take on the show.
Speaker 1: We don't even talk about music that more tastes or
Speaker 1: taste m I don't know. I don't really know the
Speaker 1: music that they all listened to, honestly, but I remember
Speaker 1: when the Kendrick Drake stuff was going on, they all
Speaker 1: had like a lot of opinions about that, and ultimately
Speaker 1: we were like, we play sports, we don't care about
Speaker 1: rap beef.
Speaker 2: Y'all don't know music. Yeah, it's one thing to.
Speaker 1: Say, right, but they never get worried.
Speaker 3: Sitting next to Gill, he's one of my favorite personalities. Like,
Speaker 3: even before he started podcasting, anything he would do on
Speaker 3: the internet was the ridiculous and anytime there was an interview,
Speaker 3: anytime he just spoke, I'm stopping what I'm doing to
Speaker 3: see ye Giel was about to do, especially if it
Speaker 3: has to do with Nick Young.
Speaker 1: Those two together have been hilarious. When they brought Nick on,
Speaker 1: I was like, is he just going to be on sometimes?
Speaker 1: But he sat on that couch the first time I
Speaker 1: was there. When he was there, I was like, I
Speaker 1: wanted to cure. Every day they're back and forth, their
Speaker 1: bands are, their stories like it has like change, like
Speaker 1: the cadence of the show. I think having them two.
Speaker 3: On, I thought when I became a father, I'd be
Speaker 3: a little more gentle with certain things. I still watch
Speaker 3: the clips of Gil abusing Nick Young's kids, and I
Speaker 3: still think it's the flash thing on fucking need that.
Speaker 1: The way they talk about playing the kids Madden video games,
Speaker 1: I'm like, do y'all ever grow up?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, they don't never don't grow up? Like I'm just
Speaker 1: with a bunch of grown ass kids all the time.
Speaker 1: I would say, Kenyan is probably the only one that
Speaker 1: is not.
Speaker 2: Seems to be the most and yeah.
Speaker 1: That's why we always sit next to each other. Like
Speaker 1: here there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kenyan from a lot of games. Nah, he ain't
Speaker 2: got a lot of play playing Kenyani if you know
Speaker 2: him from playing? No, no, he never did, Yeah, never do.
Speaker 1: They've been great, it's been really fun.
Speaker 3: What's what's been the wildest off mic take in pre
Speaker 3: production or when you guys wrap it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, to be honest, I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not really in any of like those conversations in pre production.
Speaker 1: I'm like their little like angel baby, so like they
Speaker 1: keep me out of like all the nonsense. Like they
Speaker 1: have a group chat. I'm not in it. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be in it. I just show up, I'm
Speaker 1: myself and I leave. And I think that's what makes
Speaker 1: our chemistry so good. It's like I literally just like
Speaker 1: drop in. I drop out, Like when they go to games,
Speaker 1: when they go to All Star, like, I don't go talk,
Speaker 1: stay out, I stay out of it. When they have
Speaker 1: the strip club conversations on the couch, I'm just like
Speaker 1: they gave me a bullhorn. That's my contribution to those conversations.
Speaker 1: All right, too much? Not too much.
Speaker 3: I do think it would be great content for you
Speaker 3: to go to the Strip club with Gil.
Speaker 2: Oh my, I would tune in.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see the conversation that they had about
Speaker 1: competing with other men for bottles? What do y'all think
Speaker 1: about that? So basically it was studying, like that's what
Speaker 1: can you It's a pretty gay what can you? Said?
Speaker 1: But Gil was on that, he was dying on that hill,
Speaker 1: like I go to the club to make everybody else
Speaker 1: in the club look broke, and I don't care what
Speaker 1: else is going on. So if he buys ten bottles,
Speaker 1: I'm buying twenty bottles. If you bout thirty bollles, I'm
Speaker 1: buying four.
Speaker 3: Only one that is the club owner, right, like.
Speaker 1: The the only one. And it was like, you guys
Speaker 1: are all losers, And I was like, I don't buy
Speaker 1: bottles in the club, so I don't. I don't have
Speaker 1: anything to do.
Speaker 2: I mean for athletes especially somebody. But it's it's hillars
Speaker 2: because I remember the story Gil was saying about, uh,
Speaker 2: he go to the strip club, spend all this money
Speaker 2: and then the next day reporters cards stolen, and then
Speaker 2: it ends up getting all the money back. Like definitely,
Speaker 2: I thought that was incredible for him to say that.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, as athletes, it is a
Speaker 2: it's a lot of ego. Yeah, with athletes, especially if
Speaker 2: you know we're playing in the city and let's say
Speaker 2: Lebron and the Lakers come to town and then they're
Speaker 2: in the club, and it's like, okay, they're visiting, but
Speaker 2: we're in the city every week. Like if the Lakers
Speaker 2: are in the club and you know we're in the
Speaker 2: club as well, I could see how it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: y'all not gonna come to our city and just go crazy,
Speaker 2: turn it upside down and fly out to more Like
Speaker 2: now we like, we got we got to make sure
Speaker 2: we So I understand it from an athlete competitition, that's
Speaker 2: still really no, I get it, but it's like it's
Speaker 2: one million attached to a man's ego.
Speaker 1: The first time I personally experienced that is the year
Speaker 1: U n C boys basketball won the championship and they
Speaker 1: came to Shooters to celebrate.
Speaker 2: Oh man, So.
Speaker 1: Obviously our men's team were like, what the hell y'all
Speaker 1: doing here? We were like, whoa, you wouldn't see we
Speaker 1: was partying. We just wanted to party, don't y'all can't
Speaker 1: you don't care that might be the right here.
Speaker 3: While he was at Duke, you were saying, go un se.
Speaker 1: We was partying. Congratulations guys. Where the party at y'all?
Speaker 1: Y'all in Duam they pulled up. We didn't invite them,
Speaker 1: they showed up. It's I'm actually surprised that they let
Speaker 1: them inside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was asking how did they even let that happen?
Speaker 1: I don't know because they won.
Speaker 2: And nothing and nothing popped off because that's the Duke
Speaker 2: is a real like.
Speaker 1: Right, no, literally, they wouldn't even let the Duke guys
Speaker 1: go to Chapel Hill.
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: Like the UNC guys was always in Durham at Shooters,
Speaker 1: So shooters a like don't get a free for all,
Speaker 1: like I told you eighteen and up, so like everybody
Speaker 1: was in there.
Speaker 3: To me, what it sounds like, Duke is pussy? Yeah,
Speaker 3: just what it sounds like.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I remember that because we were like, what are y'all
Speaker 1: doing here? Like go back to Chapel Hill. But like
Speaker 1: Chapel Hill was like definitely more I would have say upscale,
Speaker 1: but they're like more strict because they had like actual
Speaker 1: bars and clubs and restaurants and Chapel Hill, and then
Speaker 1: we just had the barn dirty.
Speaker 3: Ass to leave Chapel Hill. And like Durham is not
Speaker 3: hood per se, but there's some nasty.
Speaker 2: Duke is like.
Speaker 1: Parked in the middle of the hood. I had no idea,
Speaker 1: just drop right in the middle.
Speaker 2: Who are your Give me your top five players whose
Speaker 2: dad played in the NBA?
Speaker 1: Oh can I think of five?
Speaker 2: Well, you got to you know who the number one is?
Speaker 2: Obviously you of course.
Speaker 1: Oh is it? Men and women? Yeah? Can be okay,
Speaker 1: but me no, Steph Curry, I think one?
Speaker 3: Nah over Kobe.
Speaker 1: Kobe's that plays in the NBA. Yeah, oh yeah, then
Speaker 1: Kobe steph Uh Clay This Clay's Thompson's dad playing the NBA.
Speaker 1: I put Clay up there.
Speaker 3: I don't even know that.
Speaker 1: In the league.
Speaker 2: I'll help you out with Duke alumni Austin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's now podcasting. Yeah, I wish he played.
Speaker 1: I wish she play. I remember him in high school
Speaker 1: because he.
Speaker 2: Went to Austin Park. I think high school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he might have the best mixtape high school mixtape ever.
Speaker 2: He's one of your one of your coach, Brandon Jennings,
Speaker 2: He's his high school mixtape is is one of the
Speaker 2: legendary high.
Speaker 1: School remember those like everybody got but everybody got one now,
Speaker 1: so it's not the same. You got to be like
Speaker 1: one of them once to get a mixtape. Now everybody
Speaker 1: got a damn.
Speaker 3: There's a camera right here video everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone got one.
Speaker 2: That was like it. But Austin's all in Rivers his
Speaker 2: high school mixtape. I remember watching it crazy and I
Speaker 2: was like, damn, like he's he's a problem.
Speaker 3: For Brandons is probably the first one I remember when
Speaker 3: I was in.
Speaker 2: His his Probably he's probably the first one that kind
Speaker 2: of like everybody was like. That was like as far
Speaker 2: as I can remember, first high school mixtape where everybody
Speaker 2: saw it and was like, oh, that's great that tape
Speaker 2: was in That was nuts.
Speaker 1: The fifth one, I want to say, Bronnie. Okay, I
Speaker 1: love Bronnie. I don't know why everyone got to smoke
Speaker 1: with Bronnie, but.
Speaker 3: He loved Bronnie for for what? Because like, as a human.
Speaker 1: I just love that he's been able to just be successful.
Speaker 3: I think he was deserving of the fifty fifth pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a fifty fifth pick, and that's why
Speaker 2: I stand we we who else? Whose who would have
Speaker 2: you had, who did you want?
Speaker 1: History of NBA has made a team money.
Speaker 3: I am all the way with Nepple babies. I think
Speaker 3: it's amazing the owners are doing it. Why can't Brown?
Speaker 3: But he's not the fifty fifth that it was.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm fine with it. Yes it was. He was
Speaker 2: at NEPO pick.
Speaker 1: We know that.
Speaker 2: But I'm not if the Lakers would have had this
Speaker 2: third pick and they picked like, all right, man, that's
Speaker 2: a little different that what we're doing, Like we had
Speaker 2: a chance to go get you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: like maybe somebody who's gonna diffranchised.
Speaker 1: It is literally almost not drafted.
Speaker 2: Exactly, so why not?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he shouldn't.
Speaker 2: And and and here's here's the other reason why to me,
Speaker 2: that pick doesn't really matter. They ended up getting Luca
Speaker 2: in the same.
Speaker 1: Year, right, good karma.
Speaker 2: It doesn't even it doesn't matter who first of all,
Speaker 2: like who.
Speaker 1: All the time they knew Luca was coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, it doesn't matter who you pick. We know
Speaker 2: we got Luca coming in joy.
Speaker 3: Wait, Bronni was the chess piece for Lucas.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know I'm saying. You do know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, is it doesn't matter who they did not
Speaker 2: draft at fifty five.
Speaker 1: They have Luca.
Speaker 2: Now they have Lucas. Doesn't matter who the fifty fifth
Speaker 2: pick is.
Speaker 3: I mean, according to y'all, theydn't need him because they
Speaker 3: got Brownie.
Speaker 2: No, no, I didn't say that. I think that the
Speaker 2: Luca pick was legendary. We needed that. But yeah, now
Speaker 2: the fifty fifth pick really doesn't matter when you're getting
Speaker 2: Luca in the same year.
Speaker 1: About it, Like, but why again, why not let Bronnie
Speaker 1: and bron play together. They're making history, they were making money.
Speaker 1: It was they dragged it, not Bronnie and bron I
Speaker 1: think that they have handled it well, but I think
Speaker 1: the media drag. I think they all dragged it.
Speaker 2: Like he had to be sure they got that moment
Speaker 2: on tape. They had to. That's the documentary, Yeah for sure, Yeah,
Speaker 2: absolute definitely going to them having the Griffies court side
Speaker 2: and that whole thing. It was a Nike.
Speaker 3: Documentary and listen, I don't want to sound like a
Speaker 3: hater because I think what Bronnie is doing is way
Speaker 3: better than what Michael Jordan's son is doing.
Speaker 1: So I just recently when it comes to that, how
Speaker 1: old is Michael Jordan's son right now acting acting the Damn.
Speaker 2: For He gives thirty something right? Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: love the Trophy Room collect w A. I think the
Speaker 2: Trophy Room collection isn't credible. He had such promise in space, Jim.
Speaker 2: I thought he was going places like he found the
Speaker 2: Short Sea, did everything right? Can't even snitch on the
Speaker 2: Looney Tunes and tell her didn't tell his mom nothing?
Speaker 1: Sure, did it?
Speaker 2: So? Lex? What's some of your music predictions for twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five?
Speaker 1: Music prediction?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, like.
Speaker 2: Who was some of the artists is looking forward to
Speaker 2: hearing that?
Speaker 1: WOLB Drake. I think Drake has started.
Speaker 2: His sexy songs for you.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, okay anything Drake puts out, I love.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that about me.
Speaker 3: Did you feel disrespected as a woman when you were
Speaker 3: listening to the songs.
Speaker 1: Drake is like, he's just different. I just enjoy his music.
Speaker 1: I didn't initially like the album that much first listen,
Speaker 1: but after I listened to it a few more times,
Speaker 1: it grew on me. Which Drake albums. That's typically how
Speaker 1: yeah people consume Drake. They hate it and then they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not that bad and then now everybody's seen.
Speaker 2: It fircially coming out of last year. Like I think
Speaker 2: people were listening to this with more of a critical ear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like, odd, let's see, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shift to my pop side, you know. In
Speaker 1: sync backshe Boys, all of them, christanguelera, I feel like
Speaker 1: maybe a Britney Spears re emergence might happen somewhere.
Speaker 2: Imagine they would have gone to it.
Speaker 3: I mean, she a resurgence will happen. I'm not saying I.
Speaker 2: Don't know in what way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 2: Brittany popped out every now and then.
Speaker 1: Because Christiangele looks amazing, is performing again and one of
Speaker 1: the best voices of all. Yeah, justin Timberlake. In sync
Speaker 1: Backs boys are all coming out the word works. I
Speaker 1: feel like this little that whatever era you would call that,
Speaker 1: they're like all kind of like creeping back.
Speaker 3: I mean, I love I hope. I hope Brittany gets
Speaker 3: to a good mental space where she's able to do that.
Speaker 1: I've read her book. It was really sad. I hope
Speaker 1: that she's able to like, yeah, the stuff that.
Speaker 2: She went through with her you know, finances, business and
Speaker 2: her dad and everything control and everything that.
Speaker 1: Was that was really sad.
Speaker 3: I agree with y'all, But is it finally okay to
Speaker 3: say maybe her dad had a point?
Speaker 2: I mean, I see why you say that, because obviously
Speaker 2: the videos Brittany's been posting, people kind of questioned her
Speaker 2: mental health and things like that. But I'm also on
Speaker 2: the side of I think somewhere in there maybe Brittany's
Speaker 2: playing into that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I mean listening to the book, because we.
Speaker 2: Don't hear nothing about Brittany, like in real life, Like
Speaker 2: if right now something breaks, like Britney Spears was here
Speaker 2: and did that, we don't hear.
Speaker 1: I mean, the last thing we heard about Brittany was
Speaker 1: when Wenby's people smacked her in Vegas.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Security guard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was insane. I was like, this is
Speaker 1: this is how we're doing Britney Spears right now. Listening
Speaker 1: to the book, it was like it broke my heart.
Speaker 1: Was sad because she was thrown into this lifestyle so
Speaker 1: young and so early, and people just were constantly taking
Speaker 1: advantage of her over and over and over. But it
Speaker 1: got to a point like me and my best friendly
Speaker 1: listened to it on audio book together, like we were
Speaker 1: on a road trip kind of going to Palm Springs
Speaker 1: one day. We really, let's just listen to the Britney
Speaker 1: Spears at something like we had to stop sometimes and
Speaker 1: be like, girl, you're like grown, like you're going to
Speaker 1: keep letting people mistreat you and use and abuse you.
Speaker 1: But again, like she didn't know anything else. He really
Speaker 1: had no friends, her family was trash, So I'm just like,
Speaker 1: was just I don't really know how. I didn't really
Speaker 1: have an opinion after because I was like a little
Speaker 1: bit more confused after listening to the book. I didn't
Speaker 1: like really understand her at all because she's still obviously
Speaker 1: not okay. The situation is still really messed up. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, they let this book come out and made
Speaker 1: everybody on her opposing side look crazy, but she's still
Speaker 1: in the same situation she's in kind of, So I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: where do you want us to go from here to
Speaker 1: like support Britney Spears or like help her, because I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: she released the book and everyone was like.
Speaker 3: My gay, yeah cool. Was it a Netflix, stock or Hulu?
Speaker 3: It was maybe during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I think it was Whulu that was very sad. But
Speaker 1: it's like they've been like putting all these things out
Speaker 1: there for like people to like help her, and everyone's
Speaker 1: just kind of like, hmmm, we're gonna just stay away
Speaker 1: from that. And I I don't know why I should
Speaker 1: go to the.
Speaker 2: We should go to the the Sphere the Backsy Boys
Speaker 2: concert together, Oh my god, I was so filling hertby.
Speaker 2: I just want to see Lex like go crazy like
Speaker 2: over like her all your childhood.
Speaker 3: But you have to sing along with us, like we'll
Speaker 3: be hitting every note. You can't just be sitting Wait.
Speaker 1: So I met a j at a RAMS game. I
Speaker 1: actually have a picture with him. I'm going to hit
Speaker 1: him up, like can we go backstage? Can we meet y'all?
Speaker 1: Like he was so he was so cool, but I
Speaker 1: like I freaked out when I saw him at the game,
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, it's a backstory boy. He
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it's me. Yeah, you deserve to act
Speaker 1: like that, act just like that. This is how you
Speaker 1: deserve to act. You're so cool. He was so nice.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I told him I already I already hit
Speaker 1: him up. I said, I'm pulling up to that Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to see that for sure.
Speaker 3: I randomly saw Joey Fotone in Brooklyn like two years ago.
Speaker 3: They just walking like Joey Fort.
Speaker 2: Joey and Brooklyn. What else wuld Joey Fotone?
Speaker 3: He has to be he's from Brooklyn. Yeah, if you
Speaker 3: gave in the background of Joey Fatone, how the fuck
Speaker 3: did he end up like Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: It's like there's a documentary on Netflix called Dirty Pop
Speaker 1: I Think, and it's about like their manager and they
Speaker 1: kind of like touch on how he like he was
Speaker 1: like a boy band like Factory just this one dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the fat guy, yeah said but didn't he end
Speaker 3: up being like a creepy pedophile or some ship too.
Speaker 1: No, He's just like he was like running like a
Speaker 1: boy band Ponzi scheme, That's what it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crazy taking a lot of money, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and like just moving it around.
Speaker 2: See how you thought that that ended him? How to
Speaker 2: feel you.
Speaker 1: Framed it?
Speaker 2: And then at the end it was like he just
Speaker 2: was Yeah, it just whatever, grimy dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they said he was like one of the
Speaker 1: nicest guys ever, but he just like couldn't get out
Speaker 1: of his own way when it came to like stealing
Speaker 1: money from people.
Speaker 3: And like look at the groups, like you didn't need
Speaker 3: to steal money. No, they were generating hundreds of minions.
Speaker 2: Which money was coming in. You did not have to
Speaker 2: play that, not have to do that ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Why do we think boy bands just died because I still.
Speaker 1: I've always everyone thinks everything is gay. Now that's why.
Speaker 3: No, Because I feel like these young kids are way
Speaker 3: gayer than we were, Like even the goons are. It's
Speaker 3: like gay gooons.
Speaker 1: I saw a video yesterday on Twitter of a group
Speaker 1: of boys walk up to two girls with balloons and
Speaker 1: pop them. Walk up to the girls, pop.
Speaker 2: Them and told the girls playing the balloon challenge, but
Speaker 2: like walked.
Speaker 1: Up on the girls and played the game and the
Speaker 1: girls like.
Speaker 2: The girls weren't even playing.
Speaker 1: The girls were like what are you doing? And they
Speaker 1: just basically were like I don't like your shoes, your
Speaker 1: hair is ugly. And it was on the camera like
Speaker 1: that's loser behavior.
Speaker 3: Doing for content.
Speaker 1: They just walked up and just popping their balloons and
Speaker 1: the girls were like, what the hell are y'all doing?
Speaker 2: I mean to be fair as kids, we we we
Speaker 2: did some mean things we said some mean things the
Speaker 2: girls growing up, Like we didn't have balloons.
Speaker 3: That's because we didn't have like any type of game,
Speaker 3: like yeah, that was your way of flirting when you Yeah,
Speaker 3: we didn't.
Speaker 2: Know how to be me to the girl like say
Speaker 2: something you know, hurtful and didn't walk away. Then you
Speaker 2: didn't record it, and ye no, no, no we didn't.
Speaker 2: That's that's the we didn't make content of it. Yo.
Speaker 3: My friends pointed out, like when I was I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe like thirteen or fourteen, my friends pointed out something
Speaker 3: that I'll never get over. Anytime I was like trying
Speaker 3: to talk to a girl, I would start like stretching,
Speaker 3: like I didn't know.
Speaker 1: What to do.
Speaker 3: So I like like, I like, I just sitting there
Speaker 3: stretching with my leg up, and they let it happen
Speaker 3: and didn't say shit, only to amongst themselves, and then
Speaker 3: by like the fourth time, fat they're like I was
Speaker 3: a calisthetics Like I was mortified and in my head
Speaker 3: for the rest of high school.
Speaker 2: Just any time I was a nervous thing to do,
Speaker 2: like I didn't know what to do. Absolutely, that's just nerves.
Speaker 1: Walking back and forth.
Speaker 3: That was like the scariest thing in the world when
Speaker 3: you were going through puberty to talk to a girl.
Speaker 1: I will say, when I do get approached in person
Speaker 1: by men, I'm always so nice to them because it's
Speaker 1: not easy.
Speaker 2: How do guys approach you? Like, what do they say
Speaker 2: when they like approach you?
Speaker 1: It depends because it depends on the setting. But even
Speaker 1: like I'll say, my most recent encounter with a very
Speaker 1: he was very sweet, but it was after one of
Speaker 1: our games, and we do autograph sessions. Like there's like
Speaker 1: a line of people when you do autographs, and we
Speaker 1: walked down and everybody gets an autograph way.
Speaker 2: Nobody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well this is actually a story about me.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: We were like we had like a separate area for
Speaker 1: like season ticket holders to do pictures or whatever. It
Speaker 1: was me and another player and we were standing there
Speaker 1: and this guy like walks up like a gate. He's
Speaker 1: not a season ticket holder, so he's just walking up
Speaker 1: astral autograph whatever. Da da da, And then he like SA,
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, I got an event coming up. I
Speaker 1: want you to like come. I thought he was like
Speaker 1: talking like a party or something to bring all the
Speaker 1: girls to whatever. It was like a speaking engagement and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's cool. When is it? It
Speaker 1: was like weeks from that day, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be Nashville anymore. Okay, I'll fly hip hop class. You
Speaker 1: got a class's hip hop class to get to. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll fly you to the event. I was like to
Speaker 1: your speaking engagement.
Speaker 2: I was like, trying to book you, pay you for this?
Speaker 1: No, but then like no, I said, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: busy at that time, but like, good luck, I hope
Speaker 1: it goes really good. And then he was like oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Like well, can I get your number? And I was
Speaker 1: like no, sorry, and I was like, ye, that's.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's terrible. He shot his shot. You're supposed
Speaker 2: give him a burner.
Speaker 1: At least I don't even have a burner. I have
Speaker 1: one phone, one phone, one phone.
Speaker 3: What's your Facebook?
Speaker 1: Because even now, because I even thought about this, because
Speaker 1: like sometimes giving your number is the better choice, because
Speaker 1: if you give him your Instagram not now, they can
Speaker 1: just just like keep up with you. Like with the
Speaker 1: phone number, I can.
Speaker 3: Just like lock you yeah or just not reply reply.
Speaker 1: But obviously they will know who I am at some
Speaker 1: point and they can follow me on their own. But
Speaker 1: me like being like, oh, here's my gram. Now they're
Speaker 1: gonna like you're gonna start keeping tabs and see what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, And I'm like, yeah, maybe I should just
Speaker 1: give So I just started giving my phone number out more.
Speaker 3: Do y'all have like as a as a w BA player,
Speaker 3: Like think youre about to ask a question I was
Speaker 3: gonna ask.
Speaker 2: Do y'all have like groupies? Is it like a like
Speaker 2: is it the thing for y'all? Like y'all be laughing
Speaker 2: in the locker room like like girl this do he
Speaker 2: keep coming to the game trying to like give you?
Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't know because the thing that's the thing
Speaker 1: about the WNBA, like obviously we have like all different
Speaker 1: like sexualities and preferences, and it's like very I.
Speaker 2: Don't want you to just make that. I don't want
Speaker 2: you to make that WNBA exclusive the NBA.
Speaker 1: You know, like when everyone's like in the industry like,
Speaker 1: oh it's the same girls like yeah, we don't we
Speaker 1: don't have that. Yeah see the same dudes.
Speaker 2: I think so, man, I think I'll just keep them
Speaker 2: yet I think they out.
Speaker 1: No, it's just like like you said, it's an ego thing.
Speaker 1: Like women like we can put ourselves out there and
Speaker 1: like just go hang out.
Speaker 2: Okay do you do? Is it a conversation amongst wn
Speaker 2: b A players that y'all kind of wish that you had,
Speaker 2: like guys that were like coming too the games trying
Speaker 2: to like talk to y'all, like, so how does that work?
Speaker 2: Like y'all don't want guys to like come to the
Speaker 2: game we.
Speaker 1: Do and be fairs and yeah, I have fun, but
Speaker 1: like stay over there. I mean some girls might like it.
Speaker 1: I personally I would enjoy it, like in the confines
Speaker 1: of a basketball game. And yeah, I feel like it
Speaker 1: was like some just fine dudes on the baseline, Like,
Speaker 1: oh I would love that, but like that's it.
Speaker 2: It was just stay on the basis. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: say nothing.
Speaker 1: I will say like a game in Nashville that Titans
Speaker 1: are there, I think.
Speaker 2: Like you were crazy that game. How many jump as you?
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I like I peeped, like there
Speaker 1: was like for them on the base. I peeped them.
Speaker 3: I was like, who it is you're going crazy on
Speaker 3: the court because there's dude, the screen on.
Speaker 2: The left on the floor, like you set the screen
Speaker 2: over here.
Speaker 1: But that was it, Like I was like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: nice that they're here. Nice to look at your in
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 3: And she was lights out when I was there. That's
Speaker 3: all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Okay, because.
Speaker 3: Y'all got smoked.
Speaker 2: Game, you can't go to no more games.
Speaker 3: I was not their shoe.
Speaker 2: No, who did y'all play?
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I don't remember either. You had like three or four
Speaker 3: threes though he was cooking. Yes, the rest of the
Speaker 3: team was it? We we.
Speaker 2: That is so funny. I thought that I kind of
Speaker 2: figured that women would like kind of want like guys.
Speaker 3: I feel like the young as of the league definitely
Speaker 3: run through them, like I think they got them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that probably, Yeah, that is it's more of a they
Speaker 3: have their like I think they were the strap under
Speaker 3: the shorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the game with the strap that again, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: get it. I mean it checks out. It kind of
Speaker 2: makes it. I get it. The All Star Weekend last year,
Speaker 2: for the three point shootout, they had Steph and Sabrina
Speaker 2: Sabrina shooting.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Do you think that that's something that they should implement
Speaker 2: moving forward into All Star? Wee can having a w
Speaker 2: NBA player versus an NBA player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was fun. It was was just
Speaker 1: the wrong guy to go against, but she was close,
Speaker 1: Like that was like the best outcome we could have
Speaker 1: had being close.
Speaker 2: We think Steph went full throughout.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, that was like the best
Speaker 1: outcome that we could have had. That's not go crazy.
Speaker 1: Brina is still holding her own but ultimately winning, because
Speaker 1: if Sabrina ended up winning, just the discourse would have
Speaker 1: been insufferable. The fact that she like almost won and
Speaker 1: was still very impressive, that was like best case scenario.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if like that's just like a
Speaker 1: one time moment and we just got to like remember
Speaker 1: that as being a good moment. If they do move
Speaker 1: forward with it, I think they should alternate, so like
Speaker 1: one year they'll do it NBA All Star and then
Speaker 1: not do WB All Star, and then the next year
Speaker 1: they'll do an NBA All Stark, just alternated. If they
Speaker 1: really give a fun about, you know, increasing viewership and
Speaker 1: partnership between the w NBA, Like they need to be
Speaker 1: very intentional with how they do it.
Speaker 3: What do you think the WNBA is missing as far
Speaker 3: as I don't want to say marketing per se, but
Speaker 3: getting more eyes.
Speaker 2: On the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think and I think they've did a better
Speaker 1: job this past year, especially with this fork, as they're
Speaker 1: like showing more of us and more of our personalities
Speaker 1: are able to shine through on the court off the court,
Speaker 1: with our marketing stuff, our brand deals. It's not really
Speaker 1: frowned upon anymore. Because I remember when I first got
Speaker 1: into the league. I've always loved social media. I've always
Speaker 1: loved taking pictures, and it was like a problem when
Speaker 1: I got into the league. She's not focused, doesn't care
Speaker 1: about basketball. She cares about is social media and taking
Speaker 1: pictures by the pool and all this weird stuff.
Speaker 3: It takes one second to take a photus in one
Speaker 3: second second second to post like it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Hat a YouTube channel that they made fun of when
Speaker 1: I came in, Like it was just a lot. So
Speaker 1: kind of just letting players be who they are, I
Speaker 1: think has been the biggest change. And then yeah, allowing
Speaker 1: these rookies that come in with all this college energy
Speaker 1: and hype. They have to be on the they have
Speaker 1: to be on the floor. So this is obviously that
Speaker 1: was like the most hype of rookie class has ever had.
Speaker 1: But we've had very talented rookie classes in the past,
Speaker 1: but like you get to your team and you right
Speaker 1: on the bench, and now your college fans are now
Speaker 1: tapped back into the college because they don't know where
Speaker 1: you are, where you're playing, and you jet off overseas.
Speaker 1: Now it's like all momentum you had is gone. So
Speaker 1: I think now we're bridging that gap between like college
Speaker 1: fandom to the pros, and I think that's been like
Speaker 1: the missing link, I think so. I think this year
Speaker 1: was a really good example of.
Speaker 2: I think Caitlyn, Kaitlyn and Angel Rees coming in together,
Speaker 2: everything that happened obviously between them on the collegiate level, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then coming into the w NBA together, I think
Speaker 2: a lot of that parlayed over into the league. I
Speaker 2: thought it was great for the league for sure. How
Speaker 2: how did you feel about the criticism if you felt
Speaker 2: like it was criticism that Kaitlyn Clark was receiving throughout
Speaker 2: the season. You know a lot of people were saying
Speaker 2: that teams were kind of targeting her and kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, being more physical with her. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 2: it was a sign of respect. I think they only
Speaker 2: do that when they respect you as a player and
Speaker 2: know that you're a threat on the floor. But how
Speaker 2: did you feel like just playing and then looking at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean when I know when I when we
Speaker 1: played her, she was like number one on the scouting report,
Speaker 1: Like you're not going to deny how talented she is.
Speaker 1: And I think people did underrate like her overall play
Speaker 1: making ability and they just hyper focused on her scoring,
Speaker 1: which she's a very elite scorer, but the way she
Speaker 1: makes everybody around her better is like the best part
Speaker 1: of her game. So like she's literally the head of
Speaker 1: the snake. So I think that everybody received a lot
Speaker 1: of weird criticism this year. I only played fourteen games,
Speaker 1: so like I kind of and I wasn't really doing
Speaker 1: much because I was still kind of so I was like,
Speaker 1: kind of I kind of avoided all of that weird
Speaker 1: this course going on because I wasn't playing, so I
Speaker 1: really just was watching it and looking at it from
Speaker 1: a very like objective point of view because I was
Speaker 1: kind of out of it. I think now that we
Speaker 1: just have more eyes, it just comes with more criticisms
Speaker 1: from people that don't know what they're talking about. We
Speaker 1: see it on and other leagues with other athletes, So
Speaker 1: I think us as wn BA players just have to
Speaker 1: like we have to ignore it. We have to rise
Speaker 1: above it. And that's easier said than done. But that's
Speaker 1: what happens when you have more eyes, you have more viewers,
Speaker 1: you have more opinions. People are betting on our games
Speaker 1: and like that. It's a whole different conversation of how
Speaker 1: that has shifted sports culture and stuff. So I think
Speaker 1: everybody handled it well though, because I think everybody elevated
Speaker 1: their level of play and we retained you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of those new fans, and I know a lot
Speaker 1: of players now are getting their flowers and they have
Speaker 1: you know, a new fan bases that they didn't have
Speaker 1: prior to this rookie class because they came ready to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think after going to your game, I think
Speaker 3: we had a conversation on the next episode after that.
Speaker 3: Where the experience is great. Where I think it does
Speaker 3: lack a bit is in some brand partnership with a
Speaker 3: female rapper, like I think, because female rap is where
Speaker 3: it is in dominating right men, right now, Why a
Speaker 3: Meg or Glarilla or somebody isn't like the brand ambassador
Speaker 3: or creative director of the WNBA is beyond me. No
Speaker 3: pun That's a layup to get people like sort of
Speaker 3: what Hove does with the halftime show, but somebody when
Speaker 3: it comes to nationally televised games, they can focus on
Speaker 3: halftime show entertainment, bringing certain rappers to the game. Like
Speaker 3: I think, just with where hip hop is with women,
Speaker 3: I don't get why the WNBA is not just.
Speaker 1: Like us even consulting or anything like using that. Again,
Speaker 1: that's probably expensive, so I think that's probably part of it.
Speaker 1: But I think the w is heading in the right direction.
Speaker 1: We're in the middle of our negotiations with our new
Speaker 1: collective bargaining agreement, and we had a meeting in Nashville
Speaker 1: with all the W players that were playing in Athletes
Speaker 1: Unlimited and the things that we're fighting for like higher salaries,
Speaker 1: pensions for retired players, health benefits for retired players, like
Speaker 1: just things that we weren't able to get to in
Speaker 1: the last CBA because the one before that was so
Speaker 1: messed up. So I think, you know, the WNBA, obviously
Speaker 1: it's going to be a battle. Hopefully we can find
Speaker 1: a happy medium. But I think it's like heatted in
Speaker 1: the right direction for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, I promise I'm not trying to get you
Speaker 3: to shit on the WNBA I'm really just asking this
Speaker 3: as a professional athlete. Do you feel like the league
Speaker 3: takes care of its players? Because I feel like the
Speaker 3: NFL does a horrible job. I think now players active
Speaker 3: and retired players.
Speaker 1: We have work to do with retired players, and I
Speaker 1: think that's why it's been one of our focus in
Speaker 1: these new CBA negotiations is how can we take care
Speaker 1: of players that laid the foundation for us moving forward
Speaker 1: because there's actually nothing in place that offer retired players
Speaker 1: right now. But I think my ad was part of
Speaker 1: the lockout in his season that was like for that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Yeah, retired players, pension, all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, So that's definitely important to us. You know,
Speaker 1: we have I don't know if all teams have like
Speaker 1: mental health specialists on staff, but I know we had
Speaker 1: some in LA. We had two in LA. Do we
Speaker 1: have one in Chicago? Like I think LA might have
Speaker 1: been my first team that had mental health specialists for us,
Speaker 1: just for our team, So that wasn't a thing. The
Speaker 1: way they take care of mothers definitely has room for improvement,
Speaker 1: but it's much better than it was like when my
Speaker 1: dad was coaching. So again, like being a woman in
Speaker 1: this field, like, there's just so many things that we
Speaker 1: have to think about that men simply don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about, like getting pregnant and having kids and how
Speaker 1: you're going to manage that, and how's it going to
Speaker 1: affect your contract. It's going to affect a roster spot
Speaker 1: because now you get pregnant, you got to be out.
Speaker 1: You're out, but your salaries protected now, So like that's
Speaker 1: a spot. Yeah, So it's like you got to consider
Speaker 1: that when you're trying to have a kid, and it's like, man,
Speaker 1: that's just something men just don't have to think about it.
Speaker 2: It's definitely a lot of different things when you talk
Speaker 2: about just what players have to worry about the NBA
Speaker 2: versus the w NBA.
Speaker 1: Who are.
Speaker 2: Because I just saw that Asia Wilson got a signature
Speaker 2: shoe and I think the last person to have one
Speaker 2: was Sheryl Swoops.
Speaker 1: I think Sabrina has one.
Speaker 2: She has one now.
Speaker 1: It's like the highest selling basketball shoe right now, behind
Speaker 1: Kobe's Sabrina shoe fire.
Speaker 2: Really, I might have to look into Asia shoe is dope.
Speaker 2: Who are some of the players that you think deserve
Speaker 2: a signature shoe in the league?
Speaker 1: I mean, Asia was the biggest one for me.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean Stewie has one, Sabrina has one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: To me, Asia was like the one for me. So
Speaker 1: I think that's it's really amazing that she got one.
Speaker 1: I think Caitlyn Clark is going to have one, and
Speaker 1: I think ju Ju might be the next one that
Speaker 1: absolutely she might get one while she still she might
Speaker 1: have one. Now, yeah, she might have one already in
Speaker 1: the work well deserved.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: Arica Arikae.
Speaker 2: I love her game.
Speaker 1: I think she would sell some sneakers.
Speaker 2: I love her game. I love watching her play. She
Speaker 2: she's like I would play. I would pay to watch her.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, yea to one and I think yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think again back to the marketing thing, Like
Speaker 1: I think arik now she is able to like show
Speaker 1: more of her personality on and off the court, and
Speaker 1: I hope Dallas like pours into that, like markets that
Speaker 1: because she is like outside of being like just a
Speaker 1: dope person, Like the way she plays basketball is like
Speaker 1: super entertaining.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's fun, incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, lex one quick sneaker question before we leave.
Speaker 3: You and Iverson are the only people I've ever seen
Speaker 3: ball In questions, how did you possibly do that? One
Speaker 3: of my favorite shoes of all time. I would never
Speaker 3: play full court basketball.
Speaker 1: Well, I get paid to, so I figured it.
Speaker 2: I figured it out. In other words, you ain't got game, Lexi.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you for coming by. We obviously don't know ball,
Speaker 2: but we do know that you are one of the
Speaker 2: dopest and one of the Illis in the league. So
Speaker 2: we all supporting you and we hope to catch up
Speaker 2: with you Soon's the Spheres in the building. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we got to come to the game Seattle. I definitely
Speaker 2: want to come to Seattle Storm game. Definitely got to come.
Speaker 2: All right. That's Rory and Maul with Lexi Brown. We
Speaker 2: do not know ball, Rory, but we know that Lexi
Speaker 2: is one of the Illis.